Jim Fitzmaurice won the April handicap race in hot, sunny conditions, ahead of Sean Leith. Andrew Mead was fifth and takes an early lead in the series after just four races.
The next race is a five-miler on Tuesday 7th May at 19:00 from the Sevenoaks School track. The details are here.
Members collected four bronze medals as twenty Sevenoaks AC runners contested the Paddock Wood half on 7th April, led home by Andrew Milne and Mary Bridges. Mary (W35), Sally Shewell (W55), Sylvia Lewis (W65) and Lionel Stielow (M70) all won Kent County AA Long-Course bronzes at the event. Conditions were good for distance running with no sun and little wind. The SAC results were:
Pos | Gun | Name | Club | Cat | Num | Chip | Grade |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
96 | 1:20:48 | Andrew Milne | Sevenoaks AC | Senior Men | 173 | 1:20:40 | 73.82 |
120 | 1:22:34 | Michael Lochead | Sevenoaks AC | Senior Men | 2047 | 1:22:23 | 73.07 |
128 | 1:22:53 | Nick Humphrey-Taylor | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 1398 | 1:22:42 | 77.12 |
144 | 1:24:06 | Keith Brown | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 2394 | 1:23:55 | 76.58 |
213 | 1:28:00 | Andrew Hutchinson | Sevenoaks AC | Senior Men | 1151 | 1:27:49 | 69.03 |
338 | 1:33:51 | Alex Newby | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 1260 | 1:33:41 | 66.12 |
349 | 1:34:03 | Graham Dwyer | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 1432 | 1:33:52 | 68.47 |
368 | 1:34:51 | Mary Bridges | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 35-44 | 2023 | 1:34:33 | 71.83 |
375 | 1:35:00 | Vanessa Gilmartin | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 35-44 | 575 | 1:34:47 | 73.53 |
385 | 1:35:23 | Andrew Evans | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 1467 | 1:35:06 | 68.04 |
484 | 1:39:10 | Marion Van Lille | Sevenoaks AC | Senior Ladies | 1034 | 1:38:38 | 66.35 |
568 | 1:41:42 | Sean Leith | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 1441 | 1:41:10 | 63.32 |
621 | 1:43:12 | Michael Allen | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 40-49 | 1239 | 1:42:43 | 60.12 |
628 | 1:43:22 | Ian King | Sevenoaks AC | Senior Men | 1928 | 1:42:35 | 57.70 |
895 | 1:50:44 | Sarah Shewell | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 55-64 | 114 | 1:50:08 | 73.28 |
915 | 1:51:24 | Hugh Shewell | Sevenoaks AC | Senior Men | 1933 | 1:50:48 | 53.55 |
958 | 1:52:41 | Rhea Malkin | Sevenoaks AC | Senior Ladies | 1029 | 1:51:47 | 58.39 |
1167 | 1:59:12 | Lionel Stielow | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 70+ | 357 | 1:58:42 | 67.00 |
1571 | 2:11:57 | Richard Thomas | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Men 60-69 | 1772 | 2:10:47 | 54.97 |
1839 | 2:25:29 | Sylvia Lewis | Sevenoaks AC | Vet Ladies 65+ | 120 | 2:23:30 | 60.50 |
(NB. Sports Systems grades as above are not the 2015 WMA grades used for the SAC GP.)
Richard Pitcairn-Knowles added to his extraordinary list of masters achievements indoors and out during March with a new UK record 18:55.69 in the M85 indoor 3000m as he won both the 3000m and 800m (4:57.18) at the British Masters Indoor Championships over 9/10 March.
Not content with mere UK titles, Richard went on to contest the World Masters Championships at Torun, Poland on 24/25 March where he won silver in the M80 3000m (18:57.99) on day one and followed that with gold in the M85 Cross Country on the following day (6k/50:41).
The picture of Richard in his UK record run is from Athletics Weekly. Many congratulations to Sevenoaks AC's reigning World Champion and UK record holder!
Andrew Mead won the five mile March handicap, in bright conditions, ahead of Tony Horlock. This was Andrew's third win in the third race of the series, and he was also fastest on the day.
The next race, over seven miles, is on Sunday 21st April at the Sevenoaks School track. Details are here.